KARIMNAGAR, MAY 09, 2026: Following a tense situation between BRS and BJP activities wherein BJP activities attacked the vehicles and the Karimnagar MLA camp office and the Huzurabad MLA P Kaushik Reddy’s car recently, the BRS had given a call for a bandh condemning the attack on Saturday.
However, there was no response to the bandh call as the police have taken all important leaders into preventive and house arrests. The issue flared up when MLA Kaushik Reddy demanded Union Minister of State for Union Affairs Bandi Sanjay Kumar recently.
Frustrated with the poor response to the bandh call, the BRS activists staged a protest demonstration in front of the MLA’s camp office by holding black flags. Raising slogans against the state government and BJP, they wanted the police to stop illegal arrests of BRS leaders.
Police took them into custody and shifted them to the police station. On the other hand, police arrested agitating BRS workers at Tower Circle.
Irked over the failure of the bandh call, Karimnagar MLA Gangula Kamalakar tried to come out in support the bandh call. But, they prevented his move and arrested and shifted him to the City police training college in Karimnagar. Earlier, Kamalakar was placed under house arrest in the morning.
Enraged over the incident, BRS activists led by town president Challa Harishankar burnt an effigy of Union Minister of State for Home Bandi Sanjay Kumar at Court Chowk. Police rushed to the spot and took the agitating BRS workers into custody before shifting them to the police station.
